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For Sale In Bankruptcy? DOJ Seeks A Privacy Watchdog Over Millions Of Character.AI Chats
The DOJ’s bankruptcy office calls Character.AI’s privacy policy “ambiguous” and wants an ombudsman to advise the court on what user data can be sold. The chatbot called itself “a safe, confidential space.”
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Miners build every Monero block and collect its fees plus a 0.6 XMR reward that never ends. RandomX was built for ordinary CPUs, P2Pool has no pool operator, and on 19 October 2026 the network ran at about 6.57 GH/s.
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Monero hides the sender, the receiver and the amount by default. No company runs it, and no premine started it.
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Monero hides the sender, the receiver and the amount of every payment. Zcash lets users pick transparent or shielded addresses, and on 17 October 2026 about 29% of all ZEC sat in shielded pools.
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No. As of 19 October 2026, the EU’s 2027 rule does not ban owning Monero. From 10 July 2027, it bars banks, financial firms and crypto-asset service providers from keeping accounts that allow “anonymity-enhancing coins.”
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Six venues list no XMR pair, and Kraken blocks its pairs for EEA customers. KuCoin still lists XMR, but in May 2026 Austria’s regulator still barred its MiCA-licensed EU arm from starting business. Owning Monero and holding your own keys stay legal in Germany.
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